https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2...
Epiphany is a crossover of Jupyter notebook and Medium.com,
Not only can you write text, you can also program on it, to create interactive examples, see:
https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=4c411b8a0b5207739f97e787d2af...
In addition to interactivity, Epiphany implements version control, forking and pull request. You can collaborate with others just like you do on github.
https://epiphany.pub/history?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbe...
It also has the social publishing feature as seen on Medium.
Finally, users own their content. Epiphany has a download button to allow downloading all blog data.
The format used by Epiphany, unlike that of Jupyter, is in plain text and is human readable.
disclaimer: I made Epiphany
Until you implement server side rendering you will have a difficult time getting this project off the ground.
Having your article indexable by search engines is critical for 99.9% percent of people that use these sort of mediums.
But there is certainly room to improve.
So it’s really hard for the average person to charge before becoming a celebrity.
You don’t need to write an entire book. the bar is too high for that. You collaborate with others. Each writes one chapter (as a blog). And the blogs can be organized into a book. I have implemented a collaboration workflow.
Marketplace is hard. You need the network effect. I know.
But this platform is meaningful to me, I need it. A few others told me the same.
Btw check your page load time
I’m trying to optimize that. But it’s not that easy for a complex site.
I also need to consider my budget, because it is not funded yet.
But yes, optimizing performance is my highest priority.
Posting it on medium would be like giving them all those benefits, while getting a very short burst of visibility.
If you absolutely must post on medium, then post only a summary of your main blog. Then link it (“read the full article here”) to the full blog that’s hosted on your owned domain (but don’t link back to medium from your main blog).
If you have something to say, say it on your own website. Stop being a digital sharecropper.
For the love of user privacy, choice and respect: please publish on your own site/platform and syndicate to social media.
Take a look at dev community: https://dev.to
DEV Community is a burgeoning source of guidance and discussion on software topics, especially web dev.
A few additional links pertaining to dev.to
Traffic stats: https://www.similarweb.com/website/dev.to Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepracticaldev
But after some experiments, I realized that people were only reading the first 10 words and then agreeing or disagreeing based on comments. So it's not possible to do high impact things in that format.
The other downside is that it Facebook, LinkedIn, HN, etc, they force you to fit their format. You can't post a full blown 5000 word article because nobody will read it. It has to be refined in a way, which is good, but not everything can be simplified, and complex ideas just don't work.
Medium, as well as places like DEV, are full of people who write to promoting themselves as experts or marketing a service. They're focused on either making everything look like a nail or making small problems seem more complex than it is. There's very little actual interesting content or deep thoughts on complex situations, and/or the algorithm does not show them. It's also really hard to identify the bad content at a glance; you'd have to read stuff for 3 minutes to discover the author has no idea what they're talking about.
So Medium and DEV, while technically decent, are so filled with junk that anything on there is associated with junk.
Please use Blogger! if anything, for historic reasons
If you publish to your own blog, social media will not be able to censor you. You won’t be required to conform to “community guidelines” that you disagree with, just to reach a target audience. You will own all the IP and content that you create.
I want RSS feed readers and personal blogs to be the future. In my own blog, I’ve started sharing links to other blogs I like - and I hope that one day, people who like my blog will link to me. I hope to eventually acquire readers who come to my blog via a network of high quality recommendations from other bloggers, and they will discover more blogs from those I recommend - all of this without the tyranny of a single social media company controlling “how information flows through their network”
Give NetNewsWire or your favorite RSS feed reader a try. There are several old AskHN posts that have a large number of fantastic RSS feeds you can subscribe to. Try it for a month and see if you agree with me.
What are your top three RSS feed recommendations?
[1]: https://pages.github.com/
[2]: https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-pages
[3]: https://pages.bitbucket.io/
[4]: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/publishing-a-webs...
edit-to-add: I deleted my linked-in and facebook accounts too. HN is where I find leads to most good stuff now.